Four people have been killed and nine others seriously injured in an accident involving two mini-bus taxi and a truck on the R101 road between Polokwane and Mokopane in Limpopo.
This is the alternative route to the heavily tolled N1 route. Traffic spokesperson Keshetso Sethlapelo says the accident happened after one of mini buses hit a stray animal and the other one had a tyreburst.
Sethlapelo says the mini-bus taxi overturned killing four people including a driver. One of deceased is a four year old child. Sethlapelo says the truck which was traveling from Polokwane towards Mokopane lost control and veered in to the bushes.
This brings the total number lives lost on the province’s roads to thirteen. One pedestrian was killed at Ha-Motsha road in the Thohoyandou area. During this period last year, eleven people died on the roads in the province.
Yesterday, the Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele said drunken driving is the major factor causing road fatalities across the country. From last October to March this year, road traffic officials checked 7.5 million vehicles and drivers, and issued three-point-two million fines for various traffic offences. More than 12-thousand drunk drivers were arrested. Ndebele has reminded motorists not to drink and then get behind the wheel.
[Info from SABCnews.com]